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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1929
Page
3
A narrator describes crossing gates at a railroad crossing and a man narrowly crossing ahead of an express train. The piece argues taking risks excites progress and gambling runs through life, urging optimism and acceptance of chance as a force beyond human control.
Poem reflects on modern education and values missing in youth. A speaker wishes teachers would impart Lincoln’s example alongside algebra and science. It contrasts academic lessons with moral guidance amid temptations and public fame.
An essay contrasts Queen Victoria with modern women rights, noting her opposition to suffrage in 1870 and the paradox of a monarch supportive of empire yet against women’s emancipation. It questions how she would view Florence Nightingale’s reform efforts and women's roles during the great war.
A brief history of checks tracing their English origins to 1793 when the modern system of crediting deposits and allowing checks against balances formed. Early forms appeared in 1729 by Child and Company, evolving from banknotes to negotiable credit instruments.
A collection of simple recipes including mush with prunes and cream served with bacon and sugared nuts, Bird's Nest Pudding using apples and a thin batter, a cheese bake as a luncheon dish, and a brown sugar frosting. The note cites 1929 Western Newspaper Union.
A talking cat recalls a tiring day and a kind girl Edith who offers cream from a window ledge. The tale contrasts cat misadventures with Ediths tea party details and the cat’s adoration of cream and gentle attention.
Cynical Sue proclaims that belief in evolution advances, while quipping that many women are willing to admit relation to an anthropoid ape by marriage. The remark satirically challenges views on science and kinship.
Advice style piece by Viola Brothers Shore filled with humorous maxims about relationships and dating. warns against trusting women who seem to know you, jokes about flavored drinks and phones, notes misfortune with in laws, and promotes delayed departure and preference for small pleasures over large gains.
A vintage advertisement touts Phillips Milk of Magnesia as a pleasant universal sweetener for children and adults to neutralize excess stomach acid. It emphasizes its status as a genuine physician endorsed remedy and notes the trademark history dating to 1875.
Carl von Hoffman returned with thousands of feet of Africa footage after two years among interior tribes seeking film buyers. He approached the head of an educational department at a major studio, who declined, saying they never invest in religious or ethnographic material.
A quoted boast describes Jones as a versatile talent able to quote from a scrap book play a saxophone or perform a conjuring trick at a moment's notice in a spirited aside from the crowd.
The piece touts Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin as a safe gentle laxative for constipation and related ailments. It highlights its roots in 1875 practice, simple vegetable ingredients, pleasant taste, narcotic-free formula, and free trial by mailing to Syrup Pepsin BB Monticello Thinais.
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